NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with macroprolactinemia don’t need extensive exams or prolonged monitoring, according to a prospective study. As long as their monomeric prolactin concentration is normal, patients with this benign variant of hyperprolactinemia don’t require imaging studies,...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The dopamine agonist pramipexole relieves depressive symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease, according to a study published online May 10th in The Lancet Neurology. More than a third of patients with Parkinson’s disease have clinically significant depression, and the...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Dizziness in the elderly is caused by cardiovascular disease in over half of patients seen in primary care, according to new research from the Netherlands. This finding contradicts the results of many other studies that indicate vestibular disease most commonly makes older...